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Autodesk Forge Newsletter Keeps Developers Up To Date

Tue, 05/02/2017 - 13:01 — Anonymous

Anyone who has used a computer application, e.g., AutoCAD, knows that it has a User Interface (UI); however, AutoCAD also has an API (Application Program Interface) that allows tasks to be automated and for the functionality to be extended to other purposes. Much like a desktop application like AutoCAD has an API (Application Program Interface) that allows AutoCAD to be extended, our web services also have APIs that allow them to be extended. This is possible by what we call Autodesk Forge.

Forge is:

Platform (APIs) and supporting materials (sample code, manuals)

Community of developers who uses those APIs

We use Forge for our own development, but Forge is intended for our customers and 3rd party developers to be able to extend our web services. As such we have a regular newsletter that shares information with those developers. As a development partner, here's an example of the kind of information you receive.

Here are the Autodesk Forge platform updates for April 2017

SCOPES ENFORCEMENT BY MAY 22, 2017

As part of our continual platform security improvements, we want to remind you that enforcement of the scopes requirement for all access tokens will begin on May 22, 2017. If you have apps created before June 15, 2016, you need to update your code so that any access tokens generated by your app request scopes. Calls without scopes will be rejected after May 22.

It's been almost a year since we released our Data Management API, Model Derivative API, and Viewer JavaScript library that replaced the View and Data API. Consequently, on July 17, 2017, we will close down the View and Data API. Please migrate your code to Data Management API, Model Derivative API, and Viewer JavaScript library before July 17, 2017, or your application will stop working.

Forge DevCon call for speakers is open. Are you interested in sharing your experience working with the Forge Platform? Did you creatively use Forge to enhance a project or solve a challenge? If yes, then come join other experts in a leadership role at Forge DevCon. Submit your proposal by May 17!